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[a year in review] 2020 edition, part 2: slowing tf down

Above all the things that I examined within the year 2020, perhaps one of the most important themes for me was to slow the fuck down and deepen. You may or may not know that when I was a late teen I sustained a significant traumatic brain injury — a stroke that paralyzed the entire left half of my body for a month. As of this writing, it’s been over 17 years and my nervous system is still healing. So I’ve been somewhat “forced” to slow down due to my physiology, and it took me every second since that…

what reinvention means to me (i.e., refueling my purpose)

Confession: I started writing this post today originally with a completely different intention. I’m familiar with the practice of letting my words carry me somewhere I never thought I’d go in the moment — welcome to writing and the art of conversation — so I surrendered to it. I promise this post has a point, so please be patient and let it unfold. After my junior year in Florence, I decided to change my major to Italian (that way, the culture classes I’d taken wouldn’t have been for nothing — this was an attempt to speed my degree along…